[TexasARDF] Embargo

[Kenneth E. Harker]

     Just to make it clear to everyone, although we have announced 
that Bastrop and Buescher State Parks are going to be the location of 
the 2008 United States ARDF Championships, we've also announced (see 
http://www.texasardf.org/usa2008/ for details) an embargo on those 
locations for competitors.  What this means is that, until the Friday 
of the event, we would rather not have competitors visiting those 
parks, as recent familiarity with the course locations could give an 
unfair advantage.  This is very similar to what the Georgia and North 
Carolina groups did in 2003 and 2006.

     [We've announced that the embargo begins this Monday only because
HOC is holding the Southwest Regional Orienteering Championships at 
Bastrop this weekend and Jen and I hope to recruit some first-time 
ARDFers from the group, not because we want experienced ARDFers to 
have one last weekend to scout the terrain.]


     If you want to come to Texas for a warm-up classic orienteering 
event, the HOC is hosting a two-day classic orienteering meet February 9-10,
2008 in the Sam Houston National Forest near Lake Conroe, Texas.  This is 
over 100 miles away from Bastrop, has almost no elevation change, and will 
obviously be during a cooler part of the year, but you might learn about
sticker vines, prickly pear, and what a dry ditch looks like in our part 
of the world (http://www.hoc.us.orienteering.org/).  [If you or a family 
member are birders, that venue is home to an endangered red-cockaded 
woodpecker.]

-- 
Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
kenharker at kenharker.com
http://www.kenharker.com/